Alston S. Nguyen

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EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

Founding Engineer
Stealth Start Up | Remote
Oct 2024 – Present
• Independently developed a full-featured calendar and scheduling platform with Flutter (Web + Mobile) and Supabase (PostgreSQL, Auth), supporting Google/Email login, recurring events, multi-calendar filtering, and responsive UI across devices • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for automatic builds, tests, and deploys to modern web hosting platforms and iOS emulator environments • Built reusable unit and widget tests with high coverage; integrated real-time PostgreSQL sync via Supabase, robust data persistence, and efficient state management

Software Engineer
KafkaTrace – OS Labs | Remote
May 2023 – Sep 2024
• Created a developer dashboard in React for backend engineers that increases developer productivity by consolidating monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Zipkin, and Jaeger into one view
• Created an NPM package (kafkatrace) incorporating OpenTelemetry instrumentation libraries to simplify the instrumentation of Kafka clusters by 93% (from 60+ lines of code to 3)
• Utilized NextAuth.js for open authentication, enhancing user access options and bolstering security
• Wrote unit and integration tests using Jest

Software Engineer / Product Manager
LeanTaaS Inc. | Remote
May 2021 – Aug 2022
• Served data to the frontend to enable chemotherapy centers to manage appointments in real-time, using NextGen Mirth to build, test, and deploy message data pipelines
• Analyzed and filtered hospital-provided data using Python, reducing chair wait times by up to 50%
• Created a DevOps script for automating daily ETL of EHR data to Amazon S3 to view on Tableau, increasing patient access by 150%, leading to earnings of up to $20k/chair annually
• Supported real-time HL7 FHIR integration of PHI data from various EHR systems across 1200+ hospitals, improving interoperability and care coordination

Industrial Engineer
The Boeing Company | Everett, WA
Sep 2018 – May 2021
• Employed SQL queries to achieve a 54% reduction in defects via root cause analysis within an extensive parts database
• Created Tableau KPI dashboard improving performance of 6-axis robotic arms, increasing OEE by 17% and reducing downtime by 34%

PROJECTS

Autonomous Racing AI — Unity, C#, Fuzzy Logic, ML-Agents
• Engineered an AI agent using fuzzy logic and rule-based inference for real-time throttle and steering control in a simulated racing environment; achieved 91%+ test coverage with 40 km/h average speed on complex tracks
• Integrated Unity ML-Agents to experiment with neural network-based driving policies, comparing learned behaviors with hand-crafted fuzzy control for performance benchmarking

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Python, SQL, NoSQL, Dart, HTML/CSS
Frontend: React, Next.js, Redux, Flutter, Material-UI
Backend: Node.js, Express, Apache Kafka, Docker, NextGen Mirth, Flask
DevOps / Tools: Git, Docker, Amazon S3, Tableau, VS Code, IntelliJ, PyCharm
Testing: Jest
Data / Integration: HL7 FHIR, OpenTelemetry, PostgreSQL, pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib